Your Life Plan Part 3: Time to Take Action
Your Encore Life
Today is where we form an action plan, or make specific commitments for each life account that will eventually bridge the gap between our current reality and our envisioned future of where we need to be. It is important to write you commitments as SMART goals.
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Your Life Plan Part 2 049
Your Encore Life
Today we are going to get down to the specific about several categories, or what the book “Living Forward” call Life Accounts. Examples of categories, or life accounts that you would want to include are:
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Your Life Plan Part 1 048
Your Encore Life
This is the perfect time to do what I believe is one of the most important steps to avoiding a life of regret by writing down a life plan, and we will spend the next 3 episodes replaying the 3 episodes that covered this nearly a year ago. So don’t miss a single episode of this series. Remember, just listening to teaching and information will get you nowhere unless you act on it, so here we go for part 1 of this series.
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Making Connections: Forming Lasting Relationships 047
Your Encore Life
When thinking about this topic of the importance of connecting with others, it came to me that one of the most popular series I have done was about Finding Joy in episodes 16 - 23, and one of those episodes has great information about the importance of making connections and relationships. This episode will be an encore episode from the series “Finding Lasting Joy: Relationships.
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Making Connections 046
Your Encore Life
We continue our discussion from last time on the importance of being in connection. This can be particularly important if you are retired or nearing retirement. We typically have some connection by default if we have a regular job working with others. But if you are retired or are a work at home entrepreneur, you need to be intentional about being connected with others. Regardless of whether you are working or not, we need to be intentional about being in connection with others that is healthy for us.
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Refire, Rewire, and Get Connected 045
Your Encore Life
Do you feel you need a reboot? 2020 has been a confusing year at best. Depending on your circumstances, the events of 2020 may have had little impact on your life or it could have derailed everything you were planning. We may see 2021 as a big question mark at this point, but don’t let yourself become complacent and lose sight of your dreams. Now more than ever we need to have a dream to look forward to, goals to set, and a vision for how we are going to get where we need to be.
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The One Next Right Thing We Must Do - 044
Your Encore Life
This will be a brief episode that is the most important message I have ever shared. It is that we all need to come together and pray as one to God for revival, a great awakening.
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What's Next? 043
Your Encore Life
This will be a brief episode about some things that I have observed and heard others asking, including myself.
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What Makes You, You? 042
Your Encore Life
Welcome to episode 42 of Your Encore Life. In this episode I will continue our discussion from the last few weeks on self assessments and how they can help at any stage of life, especially in your encore. I will talk a bit about my personal Cliftonstrengths results and a bit about the Enneagram, which I took recently through my coach Mark Ross as a basis for going through the Real Life Process to help me manage my priorities more effectively.
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Know Your Strengths in Your Encore 041
Your Encore Life
Welcome to episode 41 of Your Encore Life. In this episode we will be talking specifically about the CliftonStrengths Assessment and why it has value for those of us entering into or already in our Encore Life. As you may recall episodes 39 and 40 were both discussing the value of maximizing your strengths, focusing on strengths and building them rather than putting an emphasis on your weaknesses and trying to overcome them.
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Value people
Unconditionally love people
“We all have a choice what we put before us and what we put behind us”. Put behind you devaluing people. Focus on valuing people. The core issue to the situation we are in now is that we don’t value people. We lack respect, honor, appreciation for others. We are all God’s creation. God has a plan and purpose for all of His creation….God also gives us the choice to seek and find that purpose or to disregard it and Him.
Treat others as you would like to be treated. This rule is in every culture and every religion.
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere”: ML King
Put behind you selfish values that help you and not others, put before you good solid values.
Put behind us blaming, put before us listening
If we were to sit and listen to one another, we would find that despite our differences, we have more in common than we realize.
The difference between leadership during hard times in the past and today that leaders would ultimately put the people before the party and cross the aisle for the good of the country and the people. Today I feel most leaders are looking more after their own selfish interests rather than the interest of the people. The selfish interests of some has resulted in celebrating others failures, even if it is at the expense of what is best for the country and the people.
Put behind us our reactions and put before us our refections. There are lessons for all of us and we can all get better from these hard things if we take time to reflect and always put valuing others at the core of our reflection.
I am coming up on my one year anniversary for retirement. My wife just surpassed the one year mark since her retirement. As we talked about the importance of reflection previously I have also been reflecting about what this year has been like. The good, the hard, the unexpected, and my response. This also provided the opportunity to see where I have grown, and what I need to focus on more to be where I want to be, or more importantly, where God wants me to be.
One of the most helpful pieces of advise I got about this retirement life, or encore life was from my coach Mark Ross. He told me from experience that I need to be able to give myself some time to figure out how to spend my time, and that is still a work in progress.
I will be discussing how this is reflected in my life plan and what adjustments I need to make as I review the plan in our next episode.